Adalimumab-induced interstitial pneumonia with an improvement of pre-existing rheumatoid arthritis-associated lung involvement

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 749-751

  Komiya, Kosaku ^a   Ishii, Hiroshi ^a   Fujita, Naoko ^a   Oka, Hiroaki ^a   Iwata, Atsuko ^a   Sonoda, Hisako ^a   Kadota, Jun ichi ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adalimumab; Drug induced interstitial pneumonia; Rheumatoid arthritis; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MUCIN; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; JOINT SWELLING; LUNG COMPLICATION; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 79953762956     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4748     Document Type: Article

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